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STORIES FROM THE LAND OF BELLS* SATAN AND THE ELDER. The visiting cider had found it incumbent upon him to take seriously with Tammas about his overindulgence in strong drink. Tammas admitted his failing with a solemen shake of the head. “ Do you know what you should do, my man?" said the elder. " Every time you feel inclined to go into a public-house you should just say to yourself, 1 Get thee, behind me, Satan ! ’ Will you,, try that plan for a week or' . two ? " Jammas agreed, but the very next t' week the elder met him coming out of Jamie Johnstone’s bar. Without wailing for the elder to say anything, Tammas reeled up to him and remarked: “Yeer plan didna work, elder, for whenever I said the speil, Satan got behind me and pushed me in 1 ” To taste the mellow, matured flavour of BELL’S it to realise the foil meaning of “ Scotch Whisky.”

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21361, 15 June 1931, Page 4

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